Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: unmanageable
IPA transcription: [ənm'ænɪdʒəbəl]
Pronunciations of unmanageable
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: uncontrollable, uncorrectable, unmanageable
    Meaning: incapable of being controlled or managed; "uncontrollable children"; "an uncorrectable habit"
  • Synonyms: unmanageable, difficult
    Meaning: hard to control; "a difficult child", "an unmanageable situation"
  • Synonyms: uncontrollable, unmanageable
    Meaning: difficult to solve or alleviate; "uncontrollable pain"
  • Synonyms: unwieldy, unmanageable
    Meaning: difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape; "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"; "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel"
Usage examples
  • I remember a perilous ride with a companion on an unmanageable log, when we were both less than seven years old.
  • While pitching in the heavy seas the boilers leaked terribly, the fires were again put out and the ship became unmanageable.
  • A disembodied ideal, however, is unmanageable and vague; it cannot exercise the natural and material suasion proper to a model we are expected to imitate.
  • It was all getting unmanageable and very hazy, when her mother gathered her into her arms, and quickly casting aside her two garments laid her gently in a bath of caressing warmth.
  • Shaken with terror, and afraid to dismount and be next the ground, I called upon Andrew as well as my fear would permit; but my voice was nearly unmanageable, and I could do little more than howl with it.
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